Indeed it is. My bad.
I think in DD’s school, girls did much better than boys in general, not just asian.
@ucbalumnus, that’s because humans spent millennia telling stories to each other over camp fires (not sharing spreadsheets), and that was how information/wisdom was transmitted in the past.
Anyway, without other info, who knows why.
None of the boys applied early to Vassar, though, I reckon.
For STEM, it’s gender favor, has little to do with race. Regardless, the least favorable group is still asian STEM boy.
@TheOldTimer posted this link in another forum, which is quite relevant:
Apparently gender gap is not a one-way street. Some colleges traditionally attracts girls, so boys admission rate is higher; while others traditionally attract boys, so girls are easier to get admitted. Some already mentioned Vassar and MIT in this thread.
OMG, I hope you realize it depends on major and geo and more.
Here we are, celebrating that “the plural isn’t data”-- but just cuz some media hypes stats doesn’t mean they represent more than a superficial look.
“Just an anecdote from my experience this year…”
Well, just an anecdote from mine, over many years: MOST kids who apply to top or tippy tops colleges do not get in.
Wait, maybe that’s more than distant observation, lol.
Because the actual student body at all these schools are quite gender balanced, beside the factor of majors, the only thing I can definitely derive from these admission rate gap is, boys are still more ambitious, aggressive, and possibly naive.
How about more females apply to many colleges than males do? That is what is typically the driving factor in lower admit rates for women at schools other than those focused on STEM. I guess that would make females more ambitious, at least when it comes to seeking a college education?
I don’t understand how your takeaway is “boys are still more ambitious, aggressive, and possibly naive”. :-??
Why is it so difficult to understand? In OP’s example all top seven spots went to Asian girls instead of Asian boys. Its like flipping a coin seven times it all lands on the same side. The chance of that happening is 1/128! In another word, if only one of the twenty posters here in this thread observes such an outcome it is statistically significant.
One possibility could be that for early STEM admits girl to boy ratio is a whopping five to one or higher at those schools and all seven Asian boys and seven Asian girls are STEM oriented. There are not many statistically plausible scenarios.
Admission to tippy tops is not flipping a coin. You need to perform and it’s just as likely those gals outdid the guys, met a higher level of expectation in their apps, supps and LoRs.
It’s far from meeting the stats bar and then random.
When OP says neighborhood, I wonder if that’s one hs or more.
“It’s far from meeting the stats bar and then random.”
That’s true, there are some invisible forces that made the outcome observed by OP far from being statistically random. We just don’t know what these forces are.
“Anecdotally, I have not heard of any Asian boys being admitted ED to Barnard, Wellesley, Bryn Mawr, Smith, Mount Holyoke, or Vassar. However, I have no data to confirm.”
lol - well played
Son’s high school has a cork board posted in the hallway. Whoever got admission put a star on the college’s name; if it’s ED or the student decided to attend, she write her name alongside the star. After the early admission round, ALL the names that appeared on the board are Asian girls. No kidding, 100%. Stanford, MIT, UPenn, Princeton, Northwestern, Amherst, Swarthmore … We know the boys have similar test scores and GPAs and applied to similar schools, but all get deferred or rejected. Maybe it’s an anomaly. Just posting here to provide a data point, not trying infer any reason behind it.